This measure is a 30-day malfunction rate for hospitals that perform cerebrospinal ventriculoperitoneal shunt operations in children between the ages of 0 and 18 years.

This family-centered survey questionnaire consists of 68 questions that assess various aspects of care experiences during inpatient pediatric hospital stays. Questions can be used individually to measure specific performance but 35 rating questions can also be summarized into domain scores.

The 68 questions of the survey can be divided into 3 groups:
1. 26 background questions that mostly provide information for comparisons across different demographic and patient groups:

This measure is a ratio of observed to expected rate of in-hospital mortality following non-cardiac surgery among infants <= 30 days of age, risk-adjusted.

Ratio of observed to expected major adverse events (MAE) among patients undergoing congenital cardiac catheterization, risk-adjusted using the Catheterization for Congenital Heart Disease Adjustment for Risk Method II (CHARM II).

The Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC) is a brief parent-report questionnaire that is used to assess overall psychosocial functioning in children from 3 to 18 years of age. Originally developed to be a screen that would allow pediatricians and other health professionals to identify children with poor overall functioning who were in need of further evaluation or referral, the PSC has seen such wide use in large systems that it has increasingly been used as a quality indicator and as an outcome measure to assess changes in functioning over time.

This measure ascertains the parents´ perceived safety of child´s community or neighborhood.

This measure ascertains the perceived safety of child´s school.

The measure aims to ascertain the perceived difficulty in obtaining referrals for children when needed for optimum health.

This is a composite measure used to assess the need and receipt of care coordination services for children who required care from at least two types of health care services which may require communication between health care providers, or with others involved in child´s care (e.g. school).

The measure is designed to ascetain whether or not current insurance program coverage is adequate for the child´s health needs--whether the out of pocket expenses are reasonable; whether the child is limited or not in choice of doctors; and whether the benefits meet child´s healthcare needs.